Test 7 · Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth

«sheep on its back, legs waving, it's just chilling yeah» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: legs, sheep, you · What happens: wave, chill, do

This is test 7 of lesson 211 «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 sheep	punct
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chilling	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 legs	punct
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sheep	conj
8	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 legs	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sheep	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chilling	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 chilling	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 chilling	advmod
13	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	13 chilling	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 chilling	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 chilling	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wave in a quote	gerund	legs not said here	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chill in a quote	present · progressive	sheep on its back and legs	tree rules
3	do	should	you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Roll it into the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Roll	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	imperative	you not said here	it		the pond			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into pond=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell the farmer at once, a stuck sheep can die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Tell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 die	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sheep	amod
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 die	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 die	aux
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the farmer				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient
2	die	can	a stuck sheep						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Pour water on it to wake it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pour	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wake	mark
6	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pour	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	water		water			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	wake	to-infinitive	you not said here	water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Leave it, sheep like to lie like that in the sunshine to warm up

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 lie	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sunshine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sunshine	det
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 warm	mark
14	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lie	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 warm	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	like	present	sheep				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	lie not said to happen	to-infinitive	sheep not said here		the sunshine	like that	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location
4	warm up	to-infinitive	sheep not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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